Plasma 5 Powers KaOS Productivity

The KaOS Linux distro is a very efficient Linux distribution built around a refined KDE desktop environment that just keeps getting better. The KDE integration is much more controlled than you will find in other Linux choices.

06.05.2018 This week in Usability & Productivity: part 17Here’s another big one, folks! Regular readers might have noticed that I’ve stopped the weekly Discover posts. I’ve decided to centralize that information here, and so I’d like to highlight several weeks’ worth of awesome new features and improvements for Discover: Discover Discover now shows star ratings on lists and detail pages (Me, Nate Graham, KDE Plasma 5.13.0): Discover now displays app icons in conformance with the active icon theme, which also fixes the issue of Discover showing Nautilus’s icon for Dolphin in Debian-based distros (Aleix Pol, KDE ...10.04.2008 Celeste Paul (seele): Preliminary Results of Modified-Delphi Interviews to Discover Plasma User TypesDownloadable version (22.04.2008 Adriaan de Groot (adridg): Gaming the systemOr, as a good subtitle: "the assertion that metrics-based software development is stupid." I've got a nice article somewhere in a Communications of the ACM about software metrics. And how using those metrics to drive development or evaluate performance is generally a bad idea. Generally. Not always. Much of it comes down to "gaming the system", which I suppose I had best define as: In "gaming the system" the "system" refers to a system of a process and some measurement on that process and a rewards scheme based on the measurements; "gaming" is the practice of performing actions that result in...15.09.2008 Aaron Seigo (aseigo): On KDE4 PerformanceAndreas Pakulat recently blogged about performance issues with KDE 4.1 on his new desktop system. While I agree with some of the comments on that blog entry that his blog would've been better off on the kde-devel or even the kde-core-devel mailing list, since he's uncorked the genie I figured I may as well offer some commentary on the matter for the blogosphere. It's probably useful since it's an issue a lot of people are running into, and it's not fun when you do.A Line in the SandFirst, I'd like to discuss what constitutes an acceptable experience with KDE 4. There will always be some things...18.12.2017 Switching Distro’sObviously I still use FreeBSD on the desktop; with the packages from area51 I have a full and modern KDE Plasma environment. We (as in, the KDE-FreeBSD team) are still wrestling with getting the full Plasma 5 into the official ports tree (stalled, as so often it has been, on concerns of backwards compatibility), but things like CMake 3.10.1 and Qt 5.9 are sliding into place. Slowly, like brontosauruses driving a ’57 Cadillac. In the meantime, I do most of my Calamares development work — it is a Linux installer, after all — in VMs with some Linux distro installed. Invariably &...23.01.2010 Aaron Seigo (aseigo): key quest: webkitThe list of "Key Quests for 2010" was alphabetical. It was a sensible ordering and it prevented me from having to prioritize them in some linear fashion that could never be definitive anyways: all the points are important, though often in different ways, for different reasons and even with different key audiences. So, alphabetical ordering it was! This meant that WebKit was going to be the last topic, and now here we are. (Honestly, I'm glad I'll be able to get back to more "stream of consciousness, spur of the moment" blogging! :)The topic of WebKit is not the easiest one. It's had its share ...30.01.2018 Polishing Plasma 5.12Igor Ljubuncic of Dedoimedo published his review of the Plasma 5.12 beta recently. As always, he’s very thorough, and points out out issues that keep Plasma from being A+ quality. A major part of our Usability and Productivity initiative is honestly acknowledging user feedback and criticism with humility instead of defensiveness or dismissal. That way, rather than engaging in pointless arguments, we can focus on fixing problems! With our aggressive focus on user satisfaction, we read these kinds of reviews very carefully and take their comments seriously. I wanted to provide a ...29.04.2010 Aaron Seigo (aseigo): Plasma and Google Summer o' CodeYes, this is the now customary "we have students in GSoC for our project" posting for Plasma. First, though, some updates on the scripting session from yesterday: Jonathan Riddel has posted logs of the meeting (thanks Jonathan! :); I've updated the documentation on Techbase for the Plasma Shell Scripting and review is welcome as are fixes made directly to the page, it is a wiki after all!Back to the topic at hand, however: GSoC and Plasma! It's a bit of a different kind of year for us with GSoC, to be honest. In past years we've had a number of "brand new ideas being implemented from scratch" ...02.12.2018 This week in Usability & Productivity, part 47This week in Usability & Productivity we did a lot of work on our Plasma 5.12 long-term support release and performance improvements for KIO and Baloo (many of which are not individually significant enough to be mentioned here, but will add up to some great improvements over time). Lots of nice bugfixes and new features snuck in, too. New Features Plasma’s Network Manager now allows configuring IP Tunnel settings (Pranav Gade, KDE Plasma 5.15.0) In Konsole, it’s now possible to quickly switch between the current and previous tab using ctrl+tab (Thomas Surrel, KDE Applications ...06.01.2019 This week in Usability & Productivity, part 52This week in Usability & Productivity, the KDE VDG worked very intensively on aesthetics. The Breeze icon theme gained a lot of attention, resulting in many improvements, and we now have a good number of icon designers diligently working through a backlog of issues. More is on the way too, with several enthusiastic new VDG members who combine an eye for design with strong technical abilities. Expect good things to come of this! New Features When using the YaST configuration app on openSUSE, icons now get Breeze versions when using the Breeze icon theme (Noah Davis, KDE Frameworks 5.54) B...